Interior decoration



(Nomodel.) A. BOWERS 85 G'. PETTIT, Jr. INTERIOR DECORATION.

No. 420,293. Patented Jan. 28, 1890.

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YUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED BOYERS AND GEORGE PETTIT, JR., OF BROOKLYN, NEWT YORK.

INTERIOR DECORATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,293, dated January28, 1890. Application filed February 15, 1889. Serial No. 300,015. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, ALFRED BOWERS and GEORGE PETTIT, Jr., citizens ofthe United States, residing in Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in InteriorDecorations, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanyin g drawings, forming part of the same. l

This invention relates to decorations for the surfaces of interiors suchas are made up of metallic plates, and has for its object to make suchdecorations of simple construetion and of a high degree ofornamentation, and to make the separate plates so that they may bequickly applied and secured in place properly disposed and aligned.

The invention consists in an improved construction of the decoration.

In the accompanying draWings,Figure l is -a face view of our plate, andFig. 2 a section of the same on the line 2 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is aperspective view in section, showing a portion of a ceiling and sideWall with our improved decoration applied thereto.

Our improved plates are composed of any suitable metal that can be madesunlciently thin and strong. They are stamped or embossed to impart tothem the desired shape and ornamentation, and may be finished by coatingwith lacquer varnish or paint. The preferred material is tin-plate. Theplate o. is four-sided and preferably rectangular in form, and isembossed or stamped with a suitable ornamental design in relief. Aboutthe margin of the plate is provided a registering-bead o?. Another beadis shown inside the registering-bead 0.2 and parallel thereto; but itspurpose is ornamental. The sheet is trimmed close to the bead a2 on twoadjacent sides of the plate; but on the other two sides a iiange a isprovided extending beyond the beads o?. The bead a2 is of uniform shapethroughout its length, and as the beads are usually formed by the diethat stamps the design of the body of the plate, they can be madeperfectly rectangular or oblique at the desired angles. They form anappropriate border to the designs of the plates, and the outer orregistering bead a2 also acts as a ornamental panels are exposed toView. The

registering-guide to insure the proper placing and alignment of theplates upon the surface to be decorated. The iianges a form the lappingportions of the plates when they are secured to the surface to bedecorated.

The surface to be decorated, if not suitable for the direct applicationof the plates, is prepared therefor by covering it with strips orboards, thus forming a Wood sheathing or foundation. This sheathing canbe nailed directly to the beams of the building, as shown in Fig. 3, inwhich o c are the beams, and b b is the sheathing. The plates a are laidagainst the sheathing and secured thereto by holding-nails or othersuitable fastening devices. The closelytrimmed edges of one plate arelaid over the flanged edges of adjacent plates, so that theregistering-beads a2 of adjacent plates lie close together and theiianges d are concealed. The beads thus form registeringstops and insurethe disposition of the plates in line with each other. The holding-nailsare inserted through the plates along the lapping edges, and thereforepass through one plate and through the underlapping flange of theadjacent plate and into the sheathing or foundation. In Fig. 3 theplates are shown secured to a ceiling and side wall, and the lapping ofthe plates and disposition of the holding-nails are shown. i

When the plates are secured in place, the flan ges are entirelyconcealed, and a series of 8 fastening-nails may be provided with heads5 which correspond with iigures of the design; so th at they will not bedistinguishable therefrom.

The number of beads about the margin may be varied according to thetaste of the designer, a single bead being sometimes used, which is thenthe registering-bead, and two or more being sometimes used, when theouter bead is the registering-bead.

In Fig. 3 is shown the method of finishing the edges of a ceiling andthe corner and joining the ceiling and side Wall decorations.` Theborder is composed of two strips of molding e e with a line ofborder-pieces d between them. The upper border of the side wall isanother strip of molding e', and a cylindrically-curved ornamented pieceor cove f joins plates being secured in place and to the support orbacking with the beads of adjacent plates side by side and the flangesunderlapping, and fastening devices passing through the two thicknessesat the lapping edges and into the support or backing, substantially asdescribed.

ALFRED BOWERS. GEORGE PETTIT, J R. Vitnesses:

LAURA GLANZ, CARRIE BOWERS.

